Adjective : a rearguard strategy. From Dictionary.com.
Even after the feminist revolution nepotism continues to play a role in rearguard efforts to preserve the male monopoly on power. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Nepotism] Reference
As an additional evil, the battalion was still rearguard, which is generally the most tiring position in a column. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
With Paul Mara also out with an upper-body injury, the Canadiens recalled rearguard Yannick Weber from AHL Hamilton. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
It is more a "rearguard" action designed to allow time to do the healing. From Wordnik.com. [Neil Grossman: Support the Economy, Push the Banks] Reference
Looking back on it, I see the humanism of my parents as a kind of rearguard action on behalf of religious values. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
"Who, then, shall command the rearguard?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
The next day we were again rearguard, and had a rare harassing. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Fusiliers, 18th Hussars, 1st Leicestershire Regiment (rearguard). From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
We, the remainder, formed the rearguard, and a long, wearisome job it was. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
At Deep Creek the rearguard turned on us, and a severe skirmish took place. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
At six o'clock on Friday morning the rearguard entered camp at Rietfontein. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Somersets as advance-guard, and 'F' and 'G' company of the Dublins as rearguard. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
From the Austrian rearguard one part scattered to various villages, another was sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
No Boers were seen in the pass, so the force, with the battalion as rearguard, returned to. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
At 9 p.m. the column started on another night march, the battalion supplying the rearguard. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
S. Highlanders, advanced and the Nek was ours, and the Boers, De Wet's rearguard -- vamoosed. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
I think I told you in my last we arrived here on Monday after a lively time as rearguard, the. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
It then marched back as a rearguard to the brigade, through Dundee to the camp, much as if after. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
The night of the 21st the army moved back from Rossville, and my division, as the rearguard of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And right from the jump off at the Bolshevik rearguard forces, British propaganda began coming out. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Lord George Murray, who always had the rear, chose our regiment for the rearguard, tho 'it was not our turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference
The snipers followed us about half the distance to the dorp and we had quite a warm little rearguard action. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
With this division Baker sustained the brilliant rearguard action of Tashkessan against the troops of Gourko. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The campaign resembled that of 1742; the Prussian retreat was closely watched, and the rearguard pressed hard. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
There was a volley of "Merry Christmas," and his answer reached only the rearguard tumbling over the picket fence. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The advance and flanking parties moved out of camp, the Fifes had been told off for rearguard, on account of the funeral. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
For days on end Charlemagne had been alarmed at the delay of his rearguard, but ever the false Ganelon had reassured him. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
The Dublin Fusiliers formed the rearguard, and marched till mid-day, when Sunday's River (forty-eight miles) was reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
But a rearguard of academics contends that the new schools there are academic Disneylands that can't eclipse the old centers. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of the Old Cafés] Reference
His rearguard cut up a small party of British who were too impetuous in pursuit, but by the end of the year the country was at peace. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
A few hours 'delay gives him time to recover his equilibrium, to organise a rearguard, and to gain several miles on his rearward march. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
The vanguard were men with pikes and musketoons and axes; the rearguard were women who kept watch and ward over the household treasures. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
We formed the rearguard and expected a bit of harassing, the country being most favourable for such operations on the part of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
A strong rearguard remained to cover the retreat, and on my front the usual encounters between advancing and retreating forces took place. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The dangers for the rearguard naturally seemed to Charlemagne to be the greatest, and to his Douzeperes he turned, as before, for counsel. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Infantry scouring the hills and we leisurely riding a few miles along the plain as advance or rearguard, and then camping by about mid-day. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
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